United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan
The United Kingdom Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) is the governmental response to the Convention on Biological Diversity signed in 1992. When the Biodiversity Action Plans were first published in 1994, the conservation of 391 species and 45 habitats was covered.[1] As of 2009[update] 1,150 species and 65 habitats are identified as needing conservation and greater protection and are covered by UK BAPs.[2] The updated list includes the hedgehog, house sparrow, grass snake and the garden tiger moth, while otters, bottlenose dolphins and red squirrels remained in need of habitat protection.[3]
There are also about 188 Local BAPs (LBAPs) in the UK.[1]
Priority habitats
- Rivers
- Oligotrophic and dystrophic Lakes
- Ponds
- Mesotrophic lakes
- Eutrophic standing waters
- Aquifer fed naturally fluctuating water bodies
- Arable field margins
- Hedgerows
- Traditional orchards
- Wood-pasture and parkland
- Upland oakwood
- Lowland beech and yew woodland
- Upland mixed ashwoods
- Wet woodland
- Lowland mixed deciduous woodland
- Upland birchwoods
- Native pine woodlands
- Lowland dry acid grassland
- Lowland calcareous grassland
- Upland calcareous grassland
- Lowland meadows
- Upland hay meadows
- Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
- Lowland heathland
- Upland heathland
- Upland flushes, fens and swamps
- Purple moor grass and rush pastures
- Lowland fens
- Reedbeds
- Lowland raised bog
- Blanket bog
- Mountain heaths and willow scrub
- Inland rock outcrop and scree habitats
- Calaminarian grasslands
- Open mosaic habitats on previously developed land
- Limestone pavement
- Maritime cliff and slopes
- Coastal vegetated shingle
- Machair
- Coastal sand dunes
- Intertidal chalk
- Intertidal boulder communities
- Sabellaria alveolata reefs
- Coastal saltmarsh
- Intertidal mudflats
- Seagrass beds
- Sheltered muddy gravels
- Peat and clay exposures
- Subtidal chalk
- Tide-swept channels
- Fragile sponge & anthozoan communities on subtidal rocky habitats
- Estuarine rocky habitats
- Seamount communities
- Carbonate mounds
- Cold-water coral reefs
- Deep-sea sponge communities
- Sabellaria spinulosa reefs
- Subtidal sands and gravels
- Horse mussel beds
- Mud habitats in deep water
- File shell beds
- Maerl beds
- Serpulid reefs
- Blue mussel beds
- Saline lagoons
See also
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